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Quote by Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themsel

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. – Mother Teresa

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No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love is the flower youve got to let grow. – John Lennon

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I think about dying. Ive come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. – Richard Pryor

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